[Sca-cooks] New In Print

[Johnna Holloway]

The Guardian Review of the Cardinal's Hat is at--
http://books.guardian.co.uk/reviews/history/0,6121,1217670,00.html
There are used copies and new imported copies available via www.
bookfinder.com for people who are interested in the title.

Johnnae

Elise Fleming wrote: snipped

>5. _The Cardinal's Hat.  Money, ambition and housekeeping in a Renaissance
>court_ by Mary Hollingsworth, 308 pages, 18.99 pounds.  I will quote their
>review since in trying to summarize it, I would be saying the same stuff! 
>"This is based on the MSS and financial accounts of Cardinal Ippolito
>d'Este, the second son of Lucretia Borgia and the brother of the Duke of 
>Ferrara, mostly during the years 1530-40.  You will get a true idea from
>its pages of the importance of salad to the Renaissance way of catering,
>and you will have the most immense fun reading a book that extracts the
>maximum from dry details of finance as you can imagine.  My second-best
>Christmas present."
>
>Alys Katharine
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